Week Calendar

Are you searching for a new job, having trouble navigating a website, or looking to learn a new digital skill? Goodwill is at the library to help!

The YSS team will be providing street outreach services, meal kits that include snacks and water, hygiene kits, survival kits for the weather with gloves and blankets, and central intake assessments.

Staff from the Evelyn K Davis Center for Working Families are ready to provide one-on-one job search and resume assistance to job seekers.

Are you searching for a new job, having trouble navigating a website, or looking to learn a new digital skill? Goodwill is at the library to help!

Story Lab is a relaxed, supportive meetup for writers working on short stories or novels. Bring your plot questions, character issues, or story challenges, and we’ll talk them through together—no reading aloud. All experience levels welcome.

Are you searching for a new job, having trouble navigating a website, or looking to learn a new digital skill? Goodwill is at the library to help!

Learn how SCORE's free mentoring and resources can help you prepare, plan, and move forward with confidence.

Join yoga instructor, Lily Allen-Duenas, for chair yoga at the Forest Avenue Library! No experience needed! No yoga mats or props are needed. Just bring yourself!

Connect with area organizations for resources. Community advocates will provide information about community resources like meal sites and shelters.

Join us at the North Side Library for an afternoon of food and discussion! Choose a recipe from Salt Fat Acid Heat, prepare it at home, and bring it to the library for a community potluck.

This conversation club is both for native speakers and those wanting to learn Russian. Topics of conversation are meant to be light. Get to know other members of your community, or assist those wanting to learn Russian.

Need help with a phone, laptop, or tablet, or another electronic device? Come by the Central Library at 2PM on Thursdays and our staff will work with you to figure things out. This is a drop-in, first-come first-served service.

Love puzzles? Have puzzles at home that you've done and loved but won't do again? 

Come to the South Side Library Meeting Room and exchange your beloved puzzles for new to you ones! We're having a good old fashioned puzzle swap!

Join us for the DMPL Writer's Workshop on the first* Monday of the month from 5:30-7:30 PM. Share samples of work and receive feedback from other writers in the group.

Learn how to use the Bambu X-1 Carbon filament 3D printer and the Formlabs Form 3 resin 3D printer.  Participants will learn how to use the free software to prepare their 3D files for printing at the library.

Learn how to use the Cricut Maker and Cricut Venture at Tech Central! What is a Cricut?

It's hard to watch loved ones develop dementia. Join others in a supportive space. 

This group offers:

Join us at the East Side Library for Women & Money to celebrate Financial Literacy Month.

The Des Moines Public Library has been serving the community for 160 years.

Join us for the South Side Evening Book Discussion. This month there will be two books to choose from - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt or Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy. Sign out a copy of either book at the Information Desk.

Join us once a month to discuss books by underrepresented authors. Our goal is to amplify these voices and experiences while discussing social issues in the context of fiction and non-fiction books.

#1 New York Times bestseller Julia Quinn is the author of the wildly popular Bridgerton novels, which were the basis for the